The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 851

Heat hung heavy and thick in the air.

It tantalized Thalassa’s senses, causing her taut heart to skip a beat.

No one understood Lysander’s current state better than she did.

Her internal alarm bells were sounding, but she was paralyzed and frozen in place.

In silence, she held Elowen’s soft and little body in her arms. Behind her, Lysander’s broad, heated chest enveloped her; his arms were wrapping around her, and his hot breath was falling on the nape of her neck.

She was torn between protecting her precious baby and the imminent danger of the beast that could tear her to shreds at any moment.

Time ticked away.

Elowen grew softer in her arms. She had fallen asleep.

presence didn’t diminish. She had no clue if he was asleep or not.

a low,

his funeral?” His voice was laced

was going to move, suddenly froze;

question left her puzzled and alarmed, unable to decipher his intentions or his current state of mind.

his nephew, was dead. Didn’t that affect him?

me!” Lysander demanded when she didn’t

for not being able to send

come to me?” Lysander asked.

hold Thalassa as his face nuzzled her neck. His words, transformed into breath, brushed against her vulnerable skin, heightening the sense of

dared not keep silent.

it. If I had come to you, it would have put you in a

out that Zephyr had explicitly forbidden her from attending Leopold’s funeral, Thalassa had abandoned the idea altogether. She knew that going against Zephyr would result